Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Judith Butler, Communicative Competence, Job Interview
19 Nov 2012
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Everything we say is a form of social action: language not only describes our world, it helps to create it, performances of verbal art help change or maintain social relationships. John austin (1962) how to do things with words. Performatives: utterances that do something to change the state of things in the world or have a real effect. Saying the words causes an effect, such as emotions or change in status. Change something, the state of the world. Words are important in creating reality of what has happened. Is not: felicitous performatives depend on authority of speaker and appropriate context of utterance. Is not a question of true or false, Everything we say can be kind of performative. Gender is a continuous performance that we repeat throughout our lives. Something that people repeat, perform their gender. We do this as we are assigned at birth, and these expectations for boys and girls are placed.
